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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.